It's heart-wrenching. I have no time for remorseless rapists and idiotic defense lawyers, but I really really could not watch the girl's parents as they reminisce. More oxygen to the good souls. A lot of power to them to live the rest of their lives in memory of their beautiful daughter, someone they raised so well as is apparent in the film.
On India itself, the documentary should in no way represent the entire demographic, like how no single incident anywhere else should be used to paint a large section of the population. No sane, thinking Indian would have the gall to blame Jyoti for what happened to her. That being said, a large proportion of Indians needs to change their mentality towards women through their upbringing, if violence and crime against them have to be curbed. Way too much emphasis is placed on the chastity of "Indian culture", an oft-used phrase that simply confines women to a set of made up norms. The thought that a propensity to engage in activities that conform to "Western culture" leads to deterioration of one's values is uneducated and detrimental to the growth of a country with such fantastic potential. India cannot become what it can, without equal participation of women everywhere. The lady chief justice in the video rightly points towards education as a tool to eradicate the pervasive misogyny, that is rooted deeper than we would like to admit in our society.
